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WHITE PORT, a post village of the United States, in 
Frederick county, Virginia.—2. Of Lawrence county, Mis¬ 
sissippi. 
WHI'TEPOT, s. A kind of food.—Cornwall squab-pye, 
and Devon whitepot brings. King. 
WHITE RIVER, a river of the United States, in Ver¬ 
mont, which rises in Kingston, and runs into the Connecticut 
at Hartford. Length 50 miles. 
WHITE RIVER, a river of the United States, in Indiana, 
which rises about Lat. 40. 45. N. long. 85. 5. W., and runs 
into the Wabash, Lat. 38. 19. N. long. 88. 20. W. Length 
200 miles. It is itself a stream of considerable importance, 
draining the heart, and by far the finest part of the state of 
Indiana. About 40 miles above its junction with the 
Wabash, White river divides into the North and South 
branches. North branch rises in the Indian country, by a 
number of creeks, which uniting near the Indian boundary 
line, forms a fine navigable river of about 180 miles in 
length; its course nearly south-west. South branch rises in 
the same ridges with the White Water branch of the Great 
Miami; its course south-west by west 150 miles.—2. A 
river of the island of Guadaloupe, which falls into the river 
San Luis.-—3. A river of Jamaica, which runs into the sea ; 
4 miles west of Morant bay—4. A river of the United 
States, in Louisiana, which runs into the Missouri; 1130 miles 
from the Mississippi.—5. A township of the United States, 
in Knox county, Indiana. Population 974.—6. A river of 
the United States, in the Missouri Territory, which rises 
about 300 miles west of the Mississippi, and, after a winding 
course of about 700 miles, falls into the Mississippi, near 
its junction with the Arkansaw. 
WHITE ROCK, a post village of the United States, in 
Charlotte county, Virginia—2. A post village of Halifax 
county, Virginia.—3. A rocky islet in the Eastern seas, near 
the south coast of Java. 
WHITES, s. [ fluor alius.'] It arises from a laxness of 
the glands of the uterus, and a cold pituitous blood. Quincy. 
WHITESBOROUGH, a post village of the United States, 
in Oneida county. New York. It is a very pleasant, hand¬ 
some, and flourishing village; 4 miles north-west of Utica, 
and 97 west-by-north of Albany. 
WHITE SEA, called by the Russians Biel^e More, a 
great gulf of the Northern ocean, which may be said to 
penetrate into the Russian territory, to a depth of 300 or 400 
miles. The White sea extends from Lat. 63. 45. to 68. 25. 
N. and from long. 32. to 46. E. 
WHITESIDELAW, a township of England, in Nor¬ 
thumberland ; miles north-north-east of Hexham. 
WHITE-STANTON, a parish of England, in Somerset¬ 
shire, near Chard. 
WHITESTON, a parish of England, in Devonshire, near 
Exeter. Population 515. 
WHITESTONE, a river of the United States, in Lou¬ 
isiana, which runs into the Missouri, 918 miles from the 
Mississippi. 
WHITESTOWN, a post township of the United States, 
and capital of Oneida county, New York, on the south side 
of the Mohawk river. Population 4912. 
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, a post village of the 
United States, in Greenbriar county, Virginia. 
WHlTESVILLE, a post town of the United States, and 
capital of Columbus county, North Carolina. 
WHITE SWELLING. See Surgery. 
WHI'TETHORN, s. [spina alba, Latin.] A species of 
thorn.—As little as a whitethorn and a pear-tree seem of kin, 
a scion of the latter will sometimes prosper well, being grafted 
upon a stock of the former. Boyle. 
WHITEWASH, s. A wash to make the skin seem fair. 
—The clergy, during Cromwell’s usurpation, were very much 
taken up in reforming the female world; I have heard a 
whole sermon against a whitewash. Addison. —A kind of 
liquid plaster with which walls are whitened. 
Four rooms, above, below, this mansion grac’d, 
With white-wash deckt, and river-sand o’er-cast. Harte. 
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To WHITEWASH, v. a. To cover with whitewash. 
Mason. 
WHITEWATER, a river of England, in the Isle of Man, 
which runs into the sea at Douglas.—2. A township of the 
United States, in Hamilton county, Ohio. Population 910. 
—3. A river of the United States, which rises in Indiana, 
and runs into the Great Miami, 4 miles in a direct line above 
its junction with the Ohio. This river owes its name to the 
unusual transparency of its water, a fish or pebble being 
visible at the depth of 20 feet. 
WHITE WOMAN’S RIVER, in the United States, a 
main branch of the Muskingum, which it joins at Coshocton. 
WHI'TEWINE, j. A species of wine produced from the 
white grapes.—The seeds and roots are to be cut, beaten, and 
infused in whitewine. Wiseman. 
WHITEWYND, or White-woollen-hill, a beautiful 
green hill of Scotland, in Dumfries-shire, in the parish of 
Dryfesdale, which commands a delightful prospect of the 
surrounding country. 
WHITFIELD, or Beaufield, a parish of England, in 
Kent; 3 miles north-north-west of Dover. 
WHITFIELD, a township of England, in Devonshire; 9 
miles north-by-west of Chapel-en-le-Frith.—2. A hamlet in 
Gloucestershire, in the parish of Deerhurst. Population 
399.—3. A parish in Northamptonshire ; 2 miles north-east 
of Brackley.—4. A parish in Northumberland; 11 miles 
west-south-west of Hexham. Population 330. 
WHITFORD, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Shute, Devonshire. 
WHITGIFT, a township of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 6 miles south-east of Howden. 
WHITGIFT (John), an English prelate, was bom at 
Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in 1530, and in 1548 entered 
at Queen’s College, Cambridge, from which he removed to 
Pembroke-hall, where he enjoyed the tuition of John Brad¬ 
ford, afterwards one of the Protestant martyrs. In 1555 he 
became a fellow of Peter-house, and in 1557 commenced 
M. A. Upon the visitation of the University by cardinal 
Pole, about this time, for the purpose of purging it of reputed 
heretics, Whitgift dreaded the search, but by favour of the vice- 
chancellor escaped, and remained in the university. Upon the 
accession of queen Elizabeth, he entered into orders in 1560, 
and obtained preferment from Dr. Cox, bishop of Ely. In 1563 
he was appointed Margaret professor of divinity, and chap¬ 
lain to the queen in 1565. Continuing in the university, 
and maintaining the character of a good preacher and vigo¬ 
rous disciplinarian, his salary as professor was advanced, and 
a licence was granted him to preach in any part of the realm. 
In 1567 he was made master of Pembroke-hall, and soon 
after regius professor of divinity. He next became master of 
Trinity College, and graduated D.D.; and on his appoint¬ 
ment to keep the commencement-act, he chose for his thesis 
“ The Pope is the Antichrist.” In 1570 he formed a body 
of statutes for the university; in consequence of which the 
heads of houses gained new powers, by the exercise of which 
he deprived Cartwright, an eminent Calvinistic divine, of his 
Margaret professorship. In 1571 he was vice-chancellor of 
the university, in the exercise of which office he manifested 
so much zeal for the established church, that the queen con¬ 
ferred upon him the deanery of Lincoln, besides other dig¬ 
nities and honours. He also expelled Cartwright from his 
fellowship, and carried on a controversy with that divine and 
other Puritans in general. In 1577 he was advanced to the 
see of Worcester, and the office of vice-president of the coun¬ 
cil for the marches of Wales. Upon his advancement to the 
prelacy, he resigned his mastership of Trinity College, and 
devoted himself to the duties of his new office, taking care to 
improve its revenues; and in the exercise of a power, which 
he obtained from the crown by the interest of lord Burleigh, 
to bestow the prebends of his church on his own friends ac- 
cording to his own selection. 
His reputation as a man of business increased; and in 
1582 he was nominated by the archbishop of Canterbury, 
Grindal, chief commissioner for settling disputes in the dio¬ 
ceses of Lichfield and of Hereford. Grindal’s remissness in 
executing 
